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THE MATHIS REPORT
The District infrastructure construction timeline set
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East San Marco stores could open by end of 2021
The $600M Southbank project will be developed in three phases.
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BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
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The second-floor Publix is designed with four elevators and outdoor dining.
Stores could be open for business by the end of 2021 at East San Marco. Those include a 40,000-square-foot Publix supermarket, larger than initially designed. That announcement drew applause at a town hall meeting Thursday night from San Marco residents and visitors who been prepared for the 28,000-squarefoot model. The Publix store is designed on the second floor of a twostory building over ground-floor covered parking. It will have four elevators that each can accommodate four to five shopping carts. There also will be stairs. The store will include a dining area with inside seating and outdoor seats on a second-floor balcony. The estimated 200 town hall attendees had expected East San Marco to be completed by now, but the project was delayed by ownership changes, the economy and the sudden withdrawal in March 2017 by a residential developer.
Photos by Karen Brune Mathis
An estimated 200 people attended the San Marco Preservation Society town hall meeting Thursday night about the East San Marco project planned at Hendricks Avenue and Atlantic Boulevard.
Developer Regency Centers Corp. adjusted the plans and presented them to the town hall meeting Thursday at Southside Baptist Church near the site. “They’ve been working very hard to make sure that the development fits the neighborhood. I know that a lot of people in the room have seen the various iterations that it’s gone through over the years and I think that this one’s the best one,” said District 5 City Council member LeAnna Cumber. Regency intends to develop the project on 4.3 acres of vacant land it owns at 1532 Atlantic Blvd. Regency Vice President and Market Officer Patrick McKinley and England-Thims & Miller Inc. President and CEO Hugh Mathews explained the adjustSEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
Attendees of the town hall meeting about the East San Marco project view renderings of the proposed shopping center. To see renderings of the project, visit JaxDailyRecord.com
Project planners with The District, a proposed $600 million mixed-use development on the Downtown Southbank, are closer to groundbreaking by starting the permitting phase. Susan Watts, project manager for Kitson & Partners, filed a performance schedule Friday with the Downtown Investment Authority. Kitson was hired in March 2018 to execute the development plan for The District. Bill Schilling, vice president at Kimley-Horn & Associates Inc., said Thursday that The District will begin construction by April 13. According to Schilling, public amenities supported by The District’s C o m m u n i t y Munz Redevelopment Agency, such as the project’s 3.5-acre riverfront park and multiuse trail, must be complete within three years of the construction start date. Infrastructure improvements, like water and sewer utilities, roads and streetscape, will be complete by 2024. A construction timeline provided by The District co-developer Michael Munz anticipates the CDD issuing $31.3 million in bonds by Jan. 13 to pay for the work. He said the CDD should obtain construction permits from the city and hire a general contractor by March 12. Kimley-Horn’s filing with SEE THE DISTRICT, PAGE 2
Ben & Jerry’s coming to Nocatee Skinner Bros. Realty, along with The PARC Group, announced Friday that Ben & Jerry’s ice cream will open in the expansion of Nocatee Town Center. Robert and Nicole Nettles will own and operate the store. They own two Ben & Jerry’s in St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. Build-out of the 1,200-square-foot store is expected to be completed by the end of February, Robert Nettles said. The store plans to open in the spring. Construction on the shopping center’s second phase began earlier this year. It is anchored by GreenWise Market,
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